Elsie Earl Studios 5/9/17

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:

Loretta Friend

Elsie Earl Studios and Gallery

734-646-6633

www.elsieearlstudios.com

Gallery Opening

200 W. Buffalo St., New Buffalo, Michigan

Saturday, June 17, 2017 3-6 PM

Elsie Earl Studios announces its Gallery Opening: Saturday, June 17, 2017 from 3:00-6:00 PM. The featured local artist is long time New Buffalo resident, Ron Ferguson. Ferguson is a 1962 graduate of New Buffalo High School and its, now retired, first art teacher of 35 years. Ron’s works include representational and abstract watercolor, pastel, acrylic paintings, and color pencil drawings.

Elsie Earl Studios and Gallery is a new 4,000 square foot Gallery and painting studio featuring the art of local, regional, and national artists. It is housed in the Frohne Hall adjacent to St. John’s United Church of Christ at 200 West Buffalo Street next door to the New Buffalo City Hall.

The gallery carries a variety of styles, mediums, and themes. In addition to displaying over 150 original pieces of art, the space includes a painting studio which offers children and adults plaster sculptures to paint for birthday parties, girls’-night-outings, scout activities, and homeschoolers. There are occasional art classes, workshops, and demos taught by local and the gallery artists.

Elsie Earl Studios and Gallery is a destination for designers, decorators, locals, and vacationers in search for new art. There are a variety of sizes and prices to meet all needs.

This summer you can visit the Elsie Earl Studios booth at the New Buffalo Farmer’s Market on Merchant Street on Thursdays from 4-8 PM and the studio and gallery Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons.

Visit www.elsieearlstudios.com . “Like” on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LorettasArttoGo . Please recommend this gallery and studio to your friends and business associates.

Elsie Earl Studios began in 2015 by Loretta Friend in Ann Arbor. It was originally established as an arts and crafts studio offering plaster sculpture painting (“3D Painting”), dollhouse workshops, Indie book club meetings, senior craft mornings and adult painting classes taught by local University of Michigan Museum of Art docents/artists.

The studio expanded to New Buffalo in 2016 when Loretta and her husband, Steven, bought a

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second home in downtown New Buffalo during the summer after 25 years of vacationing in Harbor Country. The studio added the gallery gradually beginning that winter. After closing shop

in Ann Arbor, Loretta began bringing arts and crafts to senior living centers in Ann Arbor with plans for the same in Harbor Country.

Elsie Earl Studios’ namesake originates from Loretta’s parents, Arlene Elsie and Earl. Now deceased, both parents were always very supportive of her creative endeavors. Arlene Elsie spent her career as a systems analyst for the federal government’s Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. and Earl was a professional guitarist, french hornist, vocalist and co-creator and director of the Sea Chanters with the U.S. Navy Band in Washington D.C. Both rest in Arlington Cemetery near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

For more information Loretta can be reached via email at:

or text or call at: 734-646-6633

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